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CARE database Overview

Maria Teresa SANZ VILLEGAS

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CARE database

• The CARE data base is an EU initiative

• Council Decision 93/704/EC on the creation of a Community database on road accidents.

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• EU common tool for a better monitoring of road accidents

General objective :

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• identify and quantify road safety problems

• evaluate the efficiency of road safety measures

• determine the relevance of Community actions

• facilitate the exchange of experience in this field.

Specific objectives :

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Process : • filling accident reports by road police on the spot of the

accident

• quality checks and validation of completeness are made by

the competent authority ( Transport, Interior or statistical

offices) at country level

• national road accident databases based on the individual

police reports are created

• the complete database is sent to the EC ones per year

• EC apply uniform rules for quality control and completeness

• upload on CARE

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• Time series ( 23 year ) • 1991 – 2013 for "old" EU Member states

• 2001 – 2013 for new member states

• Countries ( 32 ) • EU countries

• EFTA countries

Data availability :

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• All accidents reported by police ( 25 Millions)

• On public roads with

• At least one motor vehicle

• At least one injured (material damage are not included)

• Vehicles involved ( 47 Millions)

• Persons involved ( 57 Millions)

Data on:

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• Complete database (under conditions):

• Login and password and specific training

• Under request : Extraction of a set of data

• Reports and statistics (Public access)

Europa website http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/specialist/statistics/index_en.htm

Access to data:

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• reports produced by the system are always aggregated

• the MS are requested to black out confidential data fields before send data

• A CARE user must have a valid user/password

• All measures have been taken guarantee the confidentiality, security and integrity

Data confidentiality and security:

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• Monitoring EU road accidents and victims:

Use of data:

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• Monitoring EU road safety common objective:

Use of data:

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• Monitoring Member States safety performances:

Use of data:

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• Monitoring Member States road safety performances

Use of data:

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• Before New legislative proposals:

Analysing the number of accidents and victims before the entry into force

• After entry into force

Monitoring the effects

• Ex-post evaluation

Analysing the effects

Use of data:

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• New type approval legislation for power two wheelers

Examples of motorcycle accidents:

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• Periodic road worthiness test for power two wheelers

Examples of motorcycle accidents:

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• Driving licence : Progressive access to heavy motorcycles

Examples of motorcycle accidents:

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• Basic definitions applied to each individual :

• Accident

• Roads

• Persons

• Vehicles

• Victims ( killed, injured)

• Common variables

• More than 100 variables

• more than 1000 values by accident

Data structure:

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CaDAS is a standard model

to report road accidents data for each accident on a common way ensuring high quality and homogeneity of the input data

Data structure: CADAS data model

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Data structure: CADAS data model

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http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safety/specialist/statistics/index_en.htm